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of the colored people as being anything more thand; what it is true they have, by their own mode of treatment heretofore, themselves really succeeded in reducing some of them to; viz,- mere brutes,- "so many cattle" The idea of their being entitled to any rights whatever is sacrilege. The white-man, now as ever, still desires that his word with them, must be law; and the colored man dare not dispute it. It is frequently said, where one has been illtreated through any such cause, that had he been a white man, he would have been treated just the same; but this is a fallacy, and the argument a specious one. In a word, any aspiration whatever on the part of the colored races is regarded as an unpardonable assumption, which will not under any circumstances be brooked. It appears to be the set resolve, that, if possible, they shall never be allowed to attain to anything; and for merely hoping to; they are hated with a mortal execration.
Every petty, mean advantage, not easy to reach, is taken of them, and every impediment thrown in the way of their progress. While now they have to support themselves and their families by their own individual exertions; and although the cost of living, and every thing else, is, necessarily, much higher than before the Rebellion, they do not realize by far as much for their labor, as did their former owners for the same, by hiring them out, while they were slaives. All has gone up, the price of labor included, every where; but the Black mans labor is worth, or, rather, brings less here, now than before. And still; it is complained of that they are lazy, dissatisfied, and reluctant to hire by the year. It is the natural consequence of an inadequate remuneration for an equivalent, if not over value received.
One, the middle class of whites assert that

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